A blog about discussions on various notable hoaxes that had sprang up over the centuries and why in the age of the Internet / Web 2.0 it still takes time and effort to confirm a hoax as such if it occurs.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Given that it forms the bulk of her raison d’être of
U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s so-called “Travel Ban”, is Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling
Green Massacre Hoax a triumph of President Trump’s obsession with so-called “Alternative
Facts”?

By: Ringo Bones

Looks like U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s obsession with
so-called “Alternative Facts” had backfired when her former campaign manager
and current Counselor Kellyanne Conway during a press interview defending his
proposed “Travel Ban” – which is widely viewed as the notorious “Muslim Ban” – managed
to create the so-called “Bowling Green Massacre Hoax”, which allegedly,
according to Kellyanne Conway, is a result of a “slip-of-the-tongue”. Despite
of this press interview faux-pas, is Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre
Hoax has a kernel of truth contained in it?

Various small-town mom and pop bread-and-breakfast establishments
in the United States deep-south region had been quick to exploit the “tourism
potential” of Kellyanne Conway’s so-called Bowling Green Massacre incident, the
truth is the origin of the now famous “journalistic hoax of 2017” that have since
gone viral has a rather mundane origin. During Kellyanne Conway’s press
interview in defense of U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s notorious “Muslim Ban”,
Conway cites an incident of a supposed massacre perpetrated by a group of “radicalized
Muslim-Americans” that happened in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

But the true origin of Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling Green
Massacre Hoax” was the 2013 Justice Department announcing that it has sentenced
two Iraqi citizens living in Bowling Green, Kentucky to federal prison after
they confessed to attacking U.S. soldiers in Iraq and assisting Al Qaeda in
Iraq by sending money and weapons. In truth, the so-called bloody massacre that
Kellyanne Conway cited as an example to defend U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s
notorious “Travel Ban” during a press conference actually never happened.
Unfortunately, the truth (or was it U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s so-called “Alternative
Facts”?) is still powerless to stop unscrupulous tour operators exploiting
Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre Hoax even if their town is only
coincidentally named Bowling Green - and not Bowling Green, Kentucky – for monetary
gain. In truth, Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling Green Massacre” is about as real as
Gene Roddenberry’s Sino-Indian War.